How Renewable Is That Resource?

Objective

Students will rank how renewable natural resources are along with how easy it is to find each resource. They will produce a two-dimensional scatter plot.

In this video, students will be placing several natural resources on a two-dimensional graph. They'll be comparing the resources' renewability and abundance.

Steps

1. Students place post-it notes for each of the natural resources onto their graph.
2. They answer questions about their thinking: Which resources were easiest/trickiest to place on the graph? What new ideas did you think of while working on the graph?

Resources

• Worksheet (PDF)
• Worksheet (Google Slides)